Word: spinach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...largely of: 1) cultists -the kind of people who (depending on their age) have seen every Hamlet from Booth's, or Forbes-Robertson's, or Barrymore's, to Maurice Evans'; 2) seekers after the "worthwhile," who dutifully imbibe Shakespeare as they swallow Beethoven and spinach; 3) school children, offspring...
...concerned exclusively with family life. A professor in this department is tiny, motherly Mrs. Ethel B. Waring. Last week Professor Waring gave U. S. mothers a formula, in nine neat points, to solve a baffling problem: how to get Junior to drink his orange juice (or eat his spinach). It took Mrs. Waring 15 years to develop her formula. In the college's laboratory nursery school, she one day decided to take sound movies (unobserved) of her tots' behavior. She found the movies illuminating. Eventually she made a reel showing the right and the wrong way to approach...
...litter the second year and started a profitable little sideline in hams. Today, as in the beginning, neither actors nor playwrights receive any cash. To such playwrights as Robert Sherwood, Noel Coward, Maxwell Anderson and Vegetarian George Bernard Shaw have gone hams for royalties. Shaw refused his, demanded spinach instead. Among dozens of productions, most unusual is a hillbilly version of Romeo and Juliet, with the feuding Montagues and Capulets looking more like Hatfields and McCoys. To Porterfield, the highest compliment his theatre has been paid is that not one vegetable has ever been thrown at the stage...
...best-selling Fashion Is Spinach, Elizabeth Hawes, petite, snip-witted, 36-year-old Manhattan dress designer, showed a chic hand with the muckrake as well as a sound knowledge of women's clothes. This time she plays Joan of Arc to clothesbound men. Few years ago Elizabeth Hawes discovered that clothes make the man miserable. She designed some collarless, tieless, pressless, lightweight, colorful models. Men nudged, pointed, but did not buy. In Men Can Take It, Miss Hawes relates with bright disgust what was wrong...
...Three, a quiz show based on bank night, is a Monday night MBS half-hour sponsored by Dunhill Cigarettes. Candidates picked from the studio audience, asked to name, for example, three vegetables beginning with S, win $2 for each right answer. If a mike-scared quizee can think of spinach, cannot remember squash or salsify, he wins only $2, and the remaining $4 goes into a jackpot. Near the program's end the candidates get a chance to share the jackpot by writing answers to a Toughie (e.g., Name three State capitals named after Presidents). If there is still...